Sentence examples for wicked child from inspiring English sources

"Wicked child!" the godmother says.

But in early drafts of "Matilda," Dahl had painted her as a wicked child who uses telekinesis to fix a horse race, a pursuit that ultimately kills her.

Tradition relates that the wicked child asks on Passover, "What does all this mean to you?," distancing himself from what should be utterly personal.

In Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, the wild, wicked child who matures into a man of science appears to "recapitulate" the story of the human rise to preeminence in the animal kingdom.

For the wise child, Judaism is an open book to be studied; for the wicked child the book is on fire; for the simple child the book is open but blank; and for the fourth child, who does not yet know to ask about the Exodus, the book is closed.

I knew I was the wicked child, the one who asks, "What is this service to you?" I was an artist, after all, and true artists are solitary, I'd tell myself as I struggled to glorify my exemption from mundane concepts like community and family.

Not that they're wicked children.

Together, they're cute on top of cute — wicked children who promise us one thing (theatrical truth) while delivering another (artifice).

But Dahl had his wicked children punished by drowning in chocolate, inflating into a giant blueberry, thrown down a garbage chute and being shrunk to a couple of inches.

From the trailer I thought that creepy Paul was going to make an Edward Norton-in-Primal Fear-type turn from mentally impaired creep into wicked child-abducting mastermind, but instead he spends the movie screaming in a box.

Likewise, fairy tales tell us that all stepmothers are wicked and children who came from unconventional family set-ups are isolated social misfits.